Its new day, Easter Monday as most people in most parts of the world call it, in Nigeria, they are still on vacation. I spoke to my mother in law this morning and she was surprised when I told her I had to get the kid ready for school and my cousin who called from Nigeria to wish my a happy birthday (in advance) was also surprised that I was heading to school. Lucky for them, its a holiday in Nigeria.

I had a blast on Easter Sunday, we were invited to a friend's house and got a fill for Easter Excitement, jollof rice with plaintain, goat meat and Shrimp for the initiated. Desert was Ice cream and assorted cake, of course we had the mother of all ice cream battles, which is better, Haagen Daaz or Eddy's, lets just say, I won't dignifiy that with an answer but just in case you are still walmartizing your thoughts about Ice Cream, let's put it this way, when it comes to Ice cream (from Friendly's, to Eddy's to Godiva and HG), Friendly's is the Pinto, Eddy's is the Volkwagen, Godiva is the Beemer but Haagen Daaz is the S-Class Benz of Ice cream. Nuff said, that settles the fight, everybody, back to your corners.

Lunch was enjoyable, we had a Nigerian politician as pre-lunch, lunch and post-lunch entertainment, no comment came out without inducing laughs from those of us in the audience. I enjoyed it, to tell you the truth, it was almost as if I had traveled to another country and I wanted it to last a little bit longer. The phone kept ringing, everyone's phone kept ringing, the Malaysian, the Business Tycoon cum Harvard bound future millionaire, the house phone, the politician (I think they are asking him to come back quick to run for office), my phone shuddered once but didnt quite ring, then again, I didn't want the all too important gist to be interrupted. Oh, did I tell you that Omarosa got a roasting in the car on the way to our gracious hosts house. None of us would hire her, she had reputedly been fired from a number of jobs in a short amount of time, someone said, if they had to work with her, they would give her a basement office, one employee and a secretary. Then again, her employee and secretary would quit after a week, probably in less time.

We watched home videos of a Nigeria PARTY!!! Let me tell you, there is nothing like a Nigerian party in Nigeria, that is. Three bands, one would probably praise sing, one would bleat out oldies and the other would blast the latest songs with dancers to show the latest moves. Awilo is still in style!! What is a Nigerian get together without a Nigerian movie??? Thats like America without Bill Clinton - in an downward spiral of uninhabitable doldrums!!! So we did what most warm-blooded Nigerians do, we watched an excerpt from $1 and then watched Spanner - the story of a short man (read: Dwarf) who was dating a very tall and beautiful woman. She married someone else, brought her ex( the dwarf) to be her houseboy in a bid to continue the romantic tryst they missed so much. If you want the remaining gist, watch the movie - SPANNER...coming to a home theatre near you. Alternatively, you can get it at No. 23, Nnamdi Azikiwe Rd, Lagos, 10 Igbinupeju Rd, 16, Upper Iweka Rd, Onitsha, 1 Pound Road, Aba!!!

It was a good night to say the least. I didnt get any reading done for my class today, and thats probably why a friend of mine caught the serious look on my face, according to her, I looked like I was dreaming (yeah, I agree, I was dreaming of the jollof rice from yesterday and if it could materialize in front of me right then), I looked concentrated and serious--well, you have to look serious enough for the professor not to call on you. Its better than saying, I am not prepared, right!!! Well, I'll holler later. Before then, It shall be well with you!!!!